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Prof. Heather Harrington

PhD
Status
Academic Faculty

Royal Society University Research Fellow

+44 1865 273510
Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/harrington/
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1705-7869
Research groups
  • Machine Learning and Data Science
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Research subgroups
  • Topological Data Analysis
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Major / recent publications

Publications/preprints can be found on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Research interests

Applied algebra, chemical reaction network theory, mathematical modeling, topological data analysis, systems biology

Recent publications
Persistent homology classifies parameter dependence of patterns in Turing systems
Spector, R Harrington, H Gaffney, E Bulletin of Mathematical Biology volume 88 issue 1 (24 Dec 2025)
Topology across scales on heterogeneous cell data
Torras-Pérez, M Yoon, I Weeratunga, P Ho, L Byrne, H Tillmann, U Harrington, H PLoS Computational Biology volume 21 issue 10 (15 Oct 2025)
Algebraic aspects of homogeneous Kuramoto oscillators
Harrington, H Schenck, H Stillman, M Mathematics of Computation volume 95 issue 358 1023-1047 (18 Feb 2025)
Algebraic identifiability of partial differential equation models
Byrne, H Harrington, H Ovchinnikov, A Pogudin, G Rahkooy, H Soto, P Nonlinearity volume 38 issue 2 (30 Jan 2025)
Absolute concentration robustness algebra and geometry
García Puente, L Gross, E Harrington, H Johnston, M Meshkat, N Pérez Millán, M Shiu, A Journal of Symbolic Computation volume 128 (30 Oct 2024)
Prizes, awards, and scholarships
Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020
Adams Prize 2019
LMS Whitehead Prize 2018
Royal Society URF 2017-2022
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2014-2017
Hooke Research Fellowship 2013-2014
NSF Graduate Fellowship 2007-2010
Barry M Goldwater Scholarship 2005-2006
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London Mathematical Society Good Practice Scheme Athena SWAN Silver Award (ECU Gender Charter) Stonewall Silver Employer 2022

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